Index card FG v IJ

FG v IJ

Hearings

England & Wales

21 Mar 2024 [2024] EWHC 586 (Fam); [2025] Fam 1; [2024] 3 WLR 881; [2024] WLR(D) 162, Fam D (Sir Andrew McFarlane P)

Additional names

In re AB (A child)

Subject Matter

CHILDREN — Orders with respect to children — Parental order — Child born pursuant to surrogacy agreement subsequently adopted — Whether court empowered to make parental order in favour of adoptive parents — Whether precluded by statutory requirement that adopted child be “treated in law as if born as child of the adopters” — Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c 38), s 67(1) — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c 22), s 54(1)(a)

[2024] EWHC 586 (Fam); [2025] Fam 1; [2024] 3 WLR 881; [2024] WLR(D) 162, Fam D

Commentary

Local Government Lawyer
High Court allows parental order application despite existence of US adoption order Case comment

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